Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and Achievements

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Index abbess, 206, 208 Abhidharma, 147 abuse, 102, 181 child, 132, 171 sexual, 101 substance, 132 acharya upadaya, 128 activism, social, 85 adhikaran ˙ a-śamatha-dharma, 57 adolescents, 142–43 AIDS, 169, 181 hospice, 176 ālaya (storehouse) consciousness, 93 alms round, 78, 201 amala (pure) consciousness, 93–95 Amarapura sect, 125 Ambattha Sutta, 157 Amitabha Buddha, 207 Ānanda, 46, 51, 235-36 anapanasati, 188 anatta. See anatman anatman (no-self), 37, 81, 94 anagārikā, 138 anger, 7, 74, 78–79, 94 antidote for, 87 aniyata-dharma, 57 Anu Nayaka sect, 129, 130 Anula, Queen, 119 Anuradhapura, 120 Apartheid, 41 arahant, 119 aramaya, 122, 129, 131 Asian Human Rights Commission, (AHRC), 35, 37–38 Association for the Promotion of the Status of Women (APSW), 176, 179, 190 Aswaghosa, Bhikkhu, 143, 144 attachment, 7 Augustine, 28 Authenticity of Open Awareness, 31–32 authority, monastic, 9 avidya (ignorance), 40 awareness, bodily, 24 embodied, 24 baha, 139 Baha, Gana, 141 Kimdo, 138, 139 bakufu (shogunate), 208, 209, 210, 211 Bajrakitiyabha, Princess, 178 Bangladesh, 14 Bartholomeusz, Tessa, 239–44, 250 Bauddha, 158 Bauddha Adhyayan Gosthi, 143 Berling, Judith, 34 bhante, 142 bhikkhu. See bhiks ˙ u bhikkun ˙ ı̄. See bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄ Bhikkhun ˙ ı̄ Saṅgha. See Bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄ Saṅgha bhiks ˙ u, 50–51, 131 Nepal, 139, 152 Sri Lanka, 132–33 Thailand, 182–84 bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄, 50 Burma, 134–35 China, 128, 151 Korea, 8, 49, 126–27, 133, 220, 244 ordination, 11, 119–34, 154 Sri Lanka, 119–21, 123, 126–35 Taiwan, 19, 49, 128, 133, 219–32 Thailand, 181, 183, 185, 188 269 Theravāda, 132 Vinaya, 18, 45–71 Bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄ Saṅgha, 15, 47, 48–51 in Sri Lanka, 119–35 Thailand, 183, 185 Theravāda, 124 Bhikkhu-vibhaṅgha, 65 bhitinee, 167 bhojanadāna, 141 Blake, Henry, 122 blessings, 130 Bodhgaya, 119, 129, 147–48 bodhi pūjā, 130 bodhi tree, 130 Bodhicarya-avatara, 198 bodhisattva, 29 body, 23–30 Bön, 31–32, 34 Bonmo, Joza, 32 Boonsue, Kornvipa, 46, 68 Bosnia, 79, 83, 89 bowing, 50, 64–65 Brahmanical society, 48 brahmin, 67, 138, 156–57, 159 Buddha, Maitreya, 124, 127 Śākyamuni, 2, 28, 38–39, 46, 61, 68, 78, 89, 244 admission of women to the order, 52, 119, 181–82, 235–38 attitude toward women, 69 concept of human rights, 37 hesitation to admit women, 59, 62, 65–66, 182 support for women, 104 teachings of, 109, 113, 120 wisdom of, 87 Buddha nature, 114 Buddhadharma, 139–52 Buddhaghosa, Bhikkhu, 140, 143, 144 Buddhism Engaged, 74, 76–77, 86, 87, 88, 102, 112, 114 Humanistic, 222, 225 Mahāyāna, 24, 45, 55, 67, 121, 134, 157 in China, 121, 223, 230 Pure Land, 223, 224 Newar 137–54, 155–63 Theravāda, 55, 134, 150, 219 Tibetan, 143, 219, 220 Vajrayāna, 137, 138, 159 Zen, 102, 219 Buddhist Association of the Republic of China (BAROC), 222, 223, 229–30 Buddhist International Mission University, 150 Buddhist Peace Fellowship, 74 Buddhist Society of Nepal, 144 Buddhist Study Circle, 142–43, 153 burakumin, 156 Burma, 85, 124 bhikkhun ˙ ı̄ order, 134–35 education, 149, 150 nuns, 121–22, 133, 134–35, 146–47, 149–50, 155 preceptors, 138 vipassanā, 151 calm, 24, 27 calm abiding (śamatha), 110 Cambodia, 124 autogenocide, 86 ordination of nuns, 8 women, 112 Carter, Jimmy and Rosalyn, 176, 177 caste, 18, 36, 138, 155–63 Vajracharya-Sakya, 158 Catholic Church, 226 celibacy, 46, 64–66, 240, 242 Chandraka, 61 Chandrakamata, 61 Chandramani, 152, 153 Chandrakı̄rti, 31 Chandravati, 149 Chari, Daw Ni, 122 charity, 40 Chhabra, Meenakshi, 18 Chew, Lin, 18 Chihon, Abbess, 214–15 children, 4, 37, 42, 101, 141–46, 165–71, 196, 204, 224, 230, 237, 241 China, bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄ ordination, 151, 222 Dharmagupta Vinaya, 58, 71, 121 Mahāyāna Buddhism, 121 nuns, 49, 121, 220, 230, 231, 244 Chodrön, Lobsang, 202–203, 204 Chodrön, Tenzin, 203 270 BUDDHIST WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE bhiks ˙ un ˙ ı̄, con’t. Chola invasions, 119–20 Chōrakuji, 120 Christian Conference of Asia, 35 Christianity, 26, 45 Cullavagga, 124, 235 Chung, Inyoung, 47, 61, 69 Ciji Foundation, 221 civil rights, 54 clinging, 78 class, 106 Coberly, Margaret, 19 community, 26, 37 compassion (karuna), 19, 25, 27, 37, 73–77, 79–80, 82–83, 85, 86, 87, 94, 98, 211, 228 conceptuality, 32 confidence, 13 conflict, analysis, 78 individual role in, 92 intercommunal, 78 interpersonal, 78...